Memory
At Computex 2023, TeamGroup unveiled two additions to its extensive family of memory products. Available with ARGB heatsinks or subtle black non-RGB heatsinks, the TeamGroup T-Force Xtreem DDR5 memory promises high performance for memory overclockers and gamers. Looking to rival the high-speed DDR5 kits from companies such as G.Skill, the T-Force Xtreem DDR5 memory is available up to DDR5-8266, with overclocked XMP 3.0 profiles designed to be used with Intel's 13th Gen Core series processors. Regarding the competition, the T-Force Xtreme DDR5-8266 will be one of, if not the fastest, fastest kit available at retail upon its launch, as G.Skill has a kit of their Trident Z5 DDR5-8000 at retail. The most glamorous looking of the two kits is the T-Force Xtreem ARGB DDR5 memory, with...
Patriot to Release Viper DDR4-2400, DDR4-2800 SO-DIMMs for Laptops
Patriot Memory has introduced its first enthusiast-class DDR4 SO-DIMMs for high-performance-notebooks and small form-factor PCs. The new Patriot Viper modules will combine fairly high clock-rates with decent capacities, thus...
6 by Anton Shilov on 6/2/2016
Corsair Announces Dominator Platinum Special Edition and Vengeance LED Memory Modules
In the last 10 years, Corsair has greatly expanded its product lineup and nowadays it produces virtually the whole range of hardware and accessories for enthusiasts with the exception...
16 by Anton Shilov on 6/1/2016
Corsair Launches Dominator Platinum Memory Modules for ASUS ROG Systems
Corsair has introduced its new custom-built kit of Dominator Platinum memory modules, which are specifically designed for ASUS ROG motherboards. The new DDR4 modules contain an exclusive SPD profile...
29 by Anton Shilov on 5/27/2016
G.Skill Reveals 2x8GB DDR4-4266 C19 and 4x16GB DDR4-3466 C14 Kits
Until recently enthusiasts who would like to use the fastest DDR4 memory with their Skylake-S processors had to use 4 GB DIMMs based on 4 Gb chips, typically sold...
17 by Anton Shilov on 5/20/2016
Crucial Announces 16GB Ballistix Sport LT DDR4-2400 SO-DIMMs
This week Crucial is introducing its first DDR4 SO-DIMMs for enthusiasts, designed for high-performance notebooks and small form-factor PCs. The Crucial Ballistix Sport LT PC4-19200 SO-DIMMs are available in...
11 by Anton Shilov on 5/18/2016
G.Skill Unveils New Trident Z DDR4: Five New Colors
G.Skill has introduced new additions to its Trident Z family of DDR4 memory modules, which are designed to simplify the lives of anyone who wants to color-coordinate their PC...
20 by Anton Shilov on 5/16/2016
Micron Confirms Mass Production of GDDR5X Memory
Micron Technology this week confirmed that it had begun mass production of GDDR5X memory. As revealed last week, the first graphics card to use the new type of graphics...
59 by Anton Shilov on 5/12/2016
Samsung Begins To Produce DDR4 Memory Using '10nm Class' Process Tech
Samsung Electronics has started to manufacture DDR4 memory using its new '10nm class' production technology. '10nm class', by definition, implies sub-20nm but without fully disclosing the methodology, similar to...
36 by Anton Shilov on 4/7/2016
Micron Begins to Sample GDDR5X Memory, Unveils Specs of Chips
This past week Micron has quietly added its GDDR5X memory chips to its product catalogue and revealed that the DRAM devices are currently sampling to partners. The company also...
37 by Anton Shilov on 3/29/2016
Price Check: Price Gap Between DDR3 and DDR4 Memory Almost Gone
Around a year ago DRAM manufacturers ended up pinning a lot of their hopes on DDR4 as a way to improve their profit margins. In the cutthroat and highly...
16 by Anton Shilov on 2/25/2016
Micron Reports on GDDR5X Dev Progress - Volume Production This Summer
Engineers from Micron Development Center in Munich (also known as Graphics DRAM Design Center) are well known around the industry for their contribution to development of multiple graphics memory...
17 by Anton Shilov on 2/9/2016
Corsair and G.Skill Introduce 128 GB (8x16 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory Kits
An average personal computer nowadays is equipped with 8 GB or less of DRAM, according to analysts from DRAMeXchange. Due to the requirements of Microsoft Windows 10 operating system...
10 by Anton Shilov on 1/21/2016
JEDEC Publishes HBM2 Specification as Samsung Begins Mass Production of Chips
The high-bandwidth memory (HBM) technology solves two key problems related to modern DRAM: it substantially increases bandwidth available to computing devices (e.g., GPUs) and reduces power consumption. The first-generation...
42 by Anton Shilov on 1/20/2016
G.Skill Introduces 64GB DDR4-3200 Memory Kits
Back in the days, enthusiasts of high-end personal computers had to make a choice between capacity and performance of their memory sub-systems. This year G.Skill, Corsair and a number...
8 by Anton Shilov on 12/22/2015
Intel Announces Optane Storage Brand For 3D XPoint Products
At IDF 2015 this year Intel has announced that their forthcoming 3D XPoint technology based products will be sold under a new brand for the company, Optane. The Optane products...
50 by Ryan Smith on 8/18/2015
Rambus To Go Into Fabless Chip Production, Announces RB26 DDR4 DIMM Chipset
Since its inception in 1990, DRAM technology company Rambus’s business model has been an unusual one, focused on the creation and licensing of technology as opposed to selling finished...
20 by Ryan Smith on 8/17/2015
Analyzing Intel-Micron 3D XPoint: The Next Generation Non-Volatile Memory
The current mainstream memory technologies, namely DRAM and NAND, have been around for decades. While clever engineering work has allowed the two to scale below 20nm geometries, both technologies...
80 by Kristian Vättö, Ian Cutress & Ryan Smith on 7/31/2015
G.Skill Announces DDR4-4000 and DRAM in Dual Channel Kits
At this point in time, the only commercial platform that runs DDR4 is the Haswell-E processor combined with the X99 chipset. For that platform, the processor has a quad-channel...
25 by Ian Cutress on 7/29/2015_carousel.jpg)
ASRock Rack Announces EP2C612D24 and 4L: Dual Socket Haswell-EP with 24 DDR4 Slots
Two things jumped out at me when I received this press release. Firstly the name, which comes out as a mouthful – it isn’t something you could casually mention...
48 by Ian Cutress on 5/23/2015
Corsair Now Retailing 128GB UDIMM DDR4 Kits, Starting at $1755
Not much exciting happens in the land of DRAM I know – usually the most exciting things occur when we get a standards change, or when capacities increase. Luckily...
39 by Ian Cutress on 5/15/2015
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